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Minecraft: Java Edition (2011)

Mojang Studios

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

4.22 from 10696 ratings · #143 top rated on Grouvee

17807 members have it in their collection · 1957 playing now · 1111 backlogged · 485 wish listed

How long? Main story 40h · with extras 300h · 100% 489h (from 46 logged playthroughs)

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended … Read more
Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon. Read less
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Developers
Mojang Studios
Publishers
Mojang Studios
Genres
Adventure, Simulator
Themes
Fantasy, Kids, Open world, Sandbox, Survival
Franchises
Minecraft
Series
Minecraft

Release dates

  • Jun 30, 2010 (Alpha) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Dec 20, 2010 (Beta) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Nov 18, 2011 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)

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3 stars
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2 stars
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Gildas

Review Gildas 5/5 · Feb 2, 2026

After 14 years I finally beat the ender dragon.....

Prelude

After playing this game since I was a little kid off and on it is probably the game I have sunk the most hours in by far. From playing with other on xbox on survival worlds with fellow squeexers, creating a "bow clan" whatever that is, crying when my worlds were trolled by older kids, playing on hypixel and …

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Prelude

After playing this game since I was a little kid off and on it is probably the game I have sunk the most hours in by far. From playing with other on xbox on survival worlds with fellow squeexers, creating a "bow clan" whatever that is, crying when my worlds were trolled by older kids, playing on hypixel and mineplex especially bed/eggwars, roleplaying on house in hypixel during my cringe highschool/preteen years. It is in a way the game that has brought me up like many of my generation.

Why beat the dragon now?

Though I never seemed motivated to beat the ender dragon until now because all the things aforementioned kept me preoccupied. But now as a grown man I am again watching minecraft content more like I did when I was younger particulary speedrunners. And this finally motivated me for 7 hours straight to beat the game and honestly I feel like I have completed a childhood dream/goal as sad as that sounds.

Conclusion

This game as it has evolved as I found after playing all these years later has kept the same charm and gameplay for the most part we have always loved. This will always be dear to my heart as a game and to me the survival/sandbox game that none other will really compete with. This is a weird review but to me this game is more a part of me then any other game would be so I see it as part of my youth rather than a game and I am glad I came back and finished up what I didn't do as a child. Nostalgia at its best

10/10 5/5 or whateve its minecraft ffs

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miguy2

Review miguy2 2/5 · Dec 12, 2024

Not an objective review but I could never get the draw of it. I definitely have fun playing with friends but I usually would rather play something else

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PeachFuzz12

Review PeachFuzz12 4/5 · Nov 10, 2024

Slowly declining

It's more recent updates are bringing the game down, but if you were there during it's prime like I was, oh boy it was incredible. Still fun to play now, if you have the right people!

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BlackPanther1O6

Review BlackPanther1O6 5/5 · Mar 19, 2024

Minecraft - Honest Review

Minecraft, I mean theres not much to say here really. Everyone knows it everyone loves it, no one can hate it. This is really the mona lisa of video games, theres not much to hate about this game while yes its not what it once was casue of some of the stuff they added and some people making it what …

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Minecraft, I mean theres not much to say here really. Everyone knows it everyone loves it, no one can hate it. This is really the mona lisa of video games, theres not much to hate about this game while yes its not what it once was casue of some of the stuff they added and some people making it what it shouldnt be "cough smp bullshit cough". With them being lazy with the updates (why show 3 mobs for a mob vote instead of adding them all, in like tf??). But none the less everyone loves this game and is always going to be played no matter what. i give it a high 9

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Gobelin_Powa

Review Gobelin_Powa 4/5 · Feb 26, 2024

9/10 Je mets pas 10 car je l'ai pas saigné mais faut bien reconnaître l'ampleur du phénomène !!

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swaggy

Review swaggy 5/5 · Jan 18, 2024

minecraft review

i mean cmon. its MINECRAFT. this game is so timeless and amazing and honestly one of the best games ever made. who could ever hate it?

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AdheredWeird

Status AdheredWeird Jan 18, 2024

I feel like I will always "play" minecraft but this is one of those games I look at more like a living model set. As a kid I loved models and the details you could get on them. I feel like Minecraft is like a digital lego/model set. It also has a lot of nostalgia for me since I have …

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I feel like I will always "play" minecraft but this is one of those games I look at more like a living model set. As a kid I loved models and the details you could get on them. I feel like Minecraft is like a digital lego/model set. It also has a lot of nostalgia for me since I have been playing it since it's early days when there was not nearly as much complexity to it. As an older gamer I find this game totally calming (most of the time) I can watch TV while I play this game. I also play with friends which makes it fun as well. This game is more like a digital diary into what was going on in my life, oh that house over there is what I built during the last move, that maze over there is from when I got the promotion at work... you get the idea. It seems like there are so many games out there now that are heavily influenced by Minecraft and there are some that do it better in some ways but Minecraft will always hold a special place in my gaming heart.

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Mrpegumin

Status Mrpegumin Jul 14, 2023

This game is probably one of the best games i have ever played as a kid. I grown up now but still it's really fun to play with my friends.

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Flashou

Review Flashou 5/5 · Apr 26, 2023

Le jeu parfait ?

Comment ne pas mettre la note maximale à minecraft ? Ce jeu est un rêve qui prend forme, on peut littéralement créer tout ce qu'on veux, crée n'importe quel mode de jeu, aucune partie ne ressemblera à une autre car la rejouabilité est totale. Minecraft est un tel jeu qu'en quasi 15 ans d'existence personellement je suis loin, mais alors …

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Comment ne pas mettre la note maximale à minecraft ? Ce jeu est un rêve qui prend forme, on peut littéralement créer tout ce qu'on veux, crée n'importe quel mode de jeu, aucune partie ne ressemblera à une autre car la rejouabilité est totale. Minecraft est un tel jeu qu'en quasi 15 ans d'existence personellement je suis loin, mais alors encore loin d'en avoir fait le tour. Le jeu se renouvelle sans cesse et bien que certaines nouveautés ne m'ont pas plus, je continue d'y jouer tant j'y suis attacher. Pour moi minecraft est exactement ce qu'un jeu en open world peut offrir de mieux, à savoir une liberté totale.

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Naikoshino

Review Naikoshino 4/5 · Dec 27, 2022

Si no conoces este juego viviste debajo de una piedra durante los últimos 20 años.

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Luitenant_Gruber

Review Luitenant_Gruber 4/5 · Dec 13, 2022

*Warning: spoilers* Fun game with unlimited possibilities

I bought the alpha version of Minecraft when it was first released. It went the old school way: A badly designed HTML 5 page from Mojang on which you could buy a game called Minecraft for seven euros. After that, you could download the game in a zipped .jar format and extract it to your pc. Start the Minecraft launcher …

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I bought the alpha version of Minecraft when it was first released. It went the old school way: A badly designed HTML 5 page from Mojang on which you could buy a game called Minecraft for seven euros. After that, you could download the game in a zipped .jar format and extract it to your pc. Start the Minecraft launcher and you are good to go.

When I first played Minecraft, I did not know what to expect but the whole survival and free build concept immediately intrigued me. It felt so new and fresh but the ancient graphics (who were much, much worse back then) took some time to get used to. I started building a nice, safe home right away and looked for coal to make some lights.

Minecraft has laid the foundation for all the crafting survival games out there and, in a way, I am proud that I played “the original” one first.

The whole concept of the game has not changed much over the years. Just build stuff and, in the present times, defeat a dragon and conquer a fortress, located in the seventh layer of hell.

The game has been updated over the years and it remains fascinating to see how such a simple, small game, became one of the biggest open world games of all time. Every update included a ton of added resources, items, mechanics and mobs and still does these days. You now can make potions, grow any crop you can think of, enchant stuff, make magic books, the list goes on.

Today, whole servers with custom build playrooms, mighty castles, incredible build projects and unimaginable feats have been accomplished and it is just great to see how creative people can be with this game.

I spent hours surviving, building nice castles and exploring the caves and the nether. It was all good fun. With mods you can make the game into everything you could ever imagen, my personal favourite being Pixelmonn.

The only problem I have nowadays with Mincecraft is that it has no purpose anymore for me. Back then it was new, the exploring and surviving was a goal on its own. Today, I am sometimes motivated to build a huge castle or project, spent hours and hours of my free time on it and then, when it is finished, I take a death stare into limbo and ask myself: “What was the purpose of this”? Technically you can beat the game nowadays by slaying the Ender Dragon, something I already did. The credits roll and you have beaten Minecraft, but still, the game goes on after that and there is no ultimate end goal. I experience this issue with other sandbox survival build games too, but with Minecraft, it is the worst.

It could be my age (30 next month), after all, Minecraft is now considered a kid’s game, fun for the whole family. Whatever the case, these days I can only respect it like I did back then and pas the torch (stick + coal) over to the next generation.

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RileyMan03

Review RileyMan03 5/5 · Jul 13, 2022

I love Minecraft

I have always loved Minecraft since it’s debut on iOS devices in 2011. I own it on basically every platform it’s available on. It never gets old with building. There’s just so many things you can do in Minecraft and I don’t think it will ever get old whether they stop supporting it or not.

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snowknicks

Review snowknicks 5/5 · May 17, 2022

Minecraft

5/5

Played with friends on PC. Endless fun with friends, building is creative, the survival aspects are satisfying. Killing the ender dragon is a truly epic quest. Easy recommendation.

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ApramPepo

Status ApramPepo Sep 11, 2021

After trying some modpacks to.... Maybe, make this game more enjoyable to play, the Modpacks barely made the game anymore enjoyable for me.

Yes I got some quests, New things to do, Mini games, stupid Multiplayer stuff, but It's still Minecraft. I still don't get the hype around it and I'm a guy that loves playing games like No Man's …

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After trying some modpacks to.... Maybe, make this game more enjoyable to play, the Modpacks barely made the game anymore enjoyable for me.

Yes I got some quests, New things to do, Mini games, stupid Multiplayer stuff, but It's still Minecraft. I still don't get the hype around it and I'm a guy that loves playing games like No Man's Sky and Subnautica.

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Scrapai

Status Scrapai Sep 2, 2021

Es Minecraft, juégalo, y más si es con amigos. Es increíble para pasar el tiempo y relajarte un poco picando mientras escuchas un podcast, o para jugar sin mas

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lrcp

Status lrcp Dec 26, 2020

It's Minecraft. Best enjoyed with friends; I can't stomach the RL Craft modpack though, which sucks because all my apparently-masochistic friends love it.

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GuardKnowledge10

Review GuardKnowledge10 5/5 · Dec 12, 2020

Really Don’t Get the Hate

Man, this game deserves better. And I’m gonna say it, one of the best games of all time. I think the main reason it’s hated is it’s oversaturation in mainstream media, but most of the people who give that criticism are the people who haven’t played this game!

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Man, this game deserves better. And I’m gonna say it, one of the best games of all time. I think the main reason it’s hated is it’s oversaturation in mainstream media, but most of the people who give that criticism are the people who haven’t played this game!

Obviously, there are a ton of reasons to dislike this game for a different audience, it’s a sandbox game, this is the most subjective a genre can get. But I love this so much. The visual style, though simple and basically just copied is so iconic, the mob designs are memorable, and some naturally-generated structures and landscapes can look absolutely beautiful.

Of course this started as an indie title, so stuff like the icons are pretty much borrowed from Zelda games, but now people see this as, "Oh, the Minecraft heart", because it really does fit the game. It’s so cool that Minecraft is being used as an educating tool, since the possibilités are basically unlimited. That’s the whole marketing factor of the game! Obviously you can make some of the worst shit out of dirt and diorite, but seeing creators use the tools given and create cities, kingdoms, mansions, it’s amazing!

Yes, the community of this game is whack, yes, it’s heavily oversaturated, yes, it’s a very dependent on personal taste, but I for one, love it!

Playing this game with your friends leads to really fun interactions and building your world is so satisfying and makes you proud of every single achievement you’ve made. This game is monumental, and saying that it’s bad and judging it because of its community, sales, and oversaturation.

Yes, I’m playing this on PC, but I also want to give a shout-out to the awesome Super Mario tie-in for the Nintendo Switch version. For me, got the Switch version, but haven’t touched it for that long.

9.5/10. I truly have no regrets. Don’t judge it off what people say, and go get it if you haven’t. It’s good.

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Inc

Status Inc Oct 1, 2020

It's Steve. This is a smart pick, though perhaps not the most exciting.

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Salomon

Status Salomon May 9, 2020

I quit and come back to this game so many times. Despite how easy the game mode is I almost always play Survival.

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Ricci

Status Ricci Mar 29, 2020

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I keep forgetting how beautiful Minecraft is.

- Ricci

[Photography: Gameplay]

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AlexGarbus

Status AlexGarbus Dec 1, 2017

For my freshmen orientation course we had to model a campus building in Minecraft. Just spent the last 5 hours finishing the project and I never want to even hear this game's title ever again.

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ahriel.hernandez

Status ahriel.hernandez May 10, 2015

You play for a while on survival and then get creative. Either way you have fun. Great game, good times, bad friends. (Lol griefers)

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